MUHC surgeons forced to use flashlights during blackout: sources

The impact of last week’s nearly hour-long blackout at the MUHC superhospital was far more serious than publicly disclosed, as surgeons had to resort to using flashlights to finish operations already in progress, the Montreal Gazette has learned.
The flashlights were easy to find, because for the first six months after the superhospital opened in 2015, the McGill University Health Centre stocked the operating rooms with plenty of flashlights and batteries in case of feared blackouts, a hig